Save the dates! Join us at our Fall-Winter 2025-2026 KLI Colloquium series. This season we have nine great colloquia lined up: Richard Gawne (Nevada State Museum), Richard Cockett (The Economist), Ludo Schoenmakers (KLI), Ronald Planer (University of Wollongong), Thomas Hansen (University of Oslo), Cristina Villegas (KLI), Enrico Petracca (KLI), Patricia Beldade (Lisbon University), and Jan Baedke (Ruhr University Bochum). You can join either in person at the KLI or online via Zoom.

Tudor BAETU (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), Canada), 2023-10-03 15:00 (CET). To join our colloquium please register with Zoom

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Kevin Laland, Laura Nuño de la Rosa García are now external faculty of the KLI.

KLI Colloquium: Stephanie Schnorr, on 15 March, 3.00 pm.

The KLI presents Greg Boyle´s film "Evolve Your Thinking" featuring the KLI´s activities and visions.

KLI Colloquium: Christine SYROWATKA (University of Oslo & KLI), 23 October, 2018, 3.00 pm

Working Group Presentation on 20 April, 2023, 3.00 pm. To join the hybrid event please register with Zoom.

Manuel SCHOLZ-WÄCKERLE (Vienna University of Economics and Business), 29 April 2021, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.

KLI Colloquium: Denis WALSH (University of Toronto), 30 April, 5.00 pm

In November, we welcomed Prof. Daniel R Brooks into the KLI as a visitor. Prof Brooks is an evolutionary biologist who pioneered the integration of phylogenetic information and ecology and behavior, with a personal focus on parasite-host systems.

Her KLI Visiting Fellowship facilitated a collaborative project with resident KLI Fellow and evolutionary anthropologist Nicole Grunstra on the adaptive covariation between pelvic and thoracic morphology in humans.

KLI Colloquium: Andrew S. YANG (Chicago Art Institute), 21 October 2019, 5.00 pm

The year 2025 marks the centenary of Rupert Riedl, the founding president of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI), which itself was established 35 years ago in 1990. Since its inception, the KLI has played a pivotal role in supporting research in theoretical biology. To commemorate this milestone, the KLI hosted a day-long symposium on 16 June 2025, under the theme "What is Theoretical Biology?" The event commenced with a welcome address by KLI President Philipp Mitteroecker, followed by a keynote lecture from Honorary President Gerd Müller, titled, "Rupert Riedl and the Austrian School of Theoretical Biology." Prof. Müller’s talk provided historical context for the academic environment in which Riedl developed his interest in theoretical biology and introduced key concepts of his theoretical approach to evolution. The symposium featured several distinguished speakers who explored different dimensions of theoretical biology. (Click on title to read more.)

New paper led by KLI fellow Vitor Renck, found very little consensus in the way a fishing community classified fishes.

KLI Colloquium: Verena WINIWARTER (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna), 26 February, 5.00 pm.

KLI Lab: Hugh DESMOND (KU Leuven), Friday 13 December, 12.00 pm.

KLI Colloquium: Ivan GONZALEZ-CABRERA (KLI), 12 March, 5.00 pm

KLI fellow Luana Poliseli develops a nuanced account of scientific understanding grounded in ethnographic studies.

Congratulations to KLI Alumn Barbara FISCHER (University of Vienna) who received an Elise Richter Grant by the Austrian National Fund (FWF) for her project "Why is childbirth so difficult in humans?"

We are pleased to share that KLI alumnus Elis Jones was awarded the prestigious Callebaut Prize for Interdisciplinary Research at the ISHPSSB 2025, held in Porto, Portugal, in July. The prize is supported by the KLI, in honour of philosopher Werner Callebaut, who also served as Scientific Director of the KLI from 1999 to 2014. The KLI congratulates Elis to this success! (Click on title to read more.)